Comment on Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please
filister@lemmy.world 3 days agoThe problem with unRAID is that you don’t really know when their product will be enshittificated. A very fresh example is Plex which was great for years and now is a bloated utter mess. They have changed their licensing policy and made the product legitimately worse for the end customers. And don’t want to be cynical but the chances are that unRAID will go that way too sooner or later.
h0rnman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Yeah, I’ve stopped using plex entirely. I was grandfathered in, but it just got to be too much nonsense. The license changes to unRAID don’t meet that bar, IMO. Yeah, the old license model is gone, but “buy once upgrade free forever” is what caused plex to go the route it did. I honestly never expected to get upgrades forever - I assumed that it would have to go one of a few ways for the devs to be able to feed their families, and what they choose is definitely one of the lesser evils. For a lot of use cases, it even makes sense. I stayed on 6.x for probably close to 3 years, so i would have saved money with the new scheme. I’m also willing to admit that if you’re truly dead set on free (both libre and gratis), then there are plenty of solid choices there, too
filister@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I have a lifetime Plex pass, but recently I switched to Jellyfin because I got sick and tired of Plex’ shenanigans.